Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) Kangxi Strokes: 12 Page 628, Entry 04 Pronounced yi. Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi): Liquid; vaporous liquid. Word Forest (Zilin): Liquid, sap. Also refers to flowing liquid, meaning a sound that continues without interruption. Book of Rites (Liji), Record of Music (Yueji): Chanted and sighed, flowing and extended. Also a surname. Quickly Mastered (Jijiu Pian): Includes the name Ye Rongdiao. Also used interchangeably with the character for armpit. History of the Former Han Dynasty (Qian Han Shu), Biography of Wang Mang: The Commandant of the Armpit Palace had not yet filled the positions of the concubines. Also pronounced shi. To soak. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Winter Officer, Artificer's Record (Kaogongji): Makers of bows, when making a bow, split the wood in winter and soak the horn in spring. Commentary: Soaked is read as fermented wine. Sub-commentary: The fermented wine implies the meaning of soaking and moistening. Also means to dissolve or disperse. Master Wen (Wenzi), Chapter on Superior Benevolence (Shangren Pian): Dispersed as if it were the liquid of water. Also pronounced yue. Zuo Si, Rhapsody on the Capital of Shu (Shu Du Fu): The millet and glutinous millet are lush, the non-glutinous rice and rice are vast. Pointing to the canal mouth as the Cloud Gate, sprinkling the leopard pond to form the land marsh. Even if the stars were to pour down in torrents, they would not equal its rich liquid. Ze is pronounced tuo. Textual Research: The original text of Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi) read as finished, but the two instances of finished are errors for the character meaning to seep; it should read as vaporous liquid, as seen in the blood radical section of the same work.